Things that used to be legal that seem almost unthinkable now

I've heard people say that in the future one day people will look at issues like gay marriage in the past and wonder how it was ever illegal in the first place. Maybe, maybe not.

But for fun, let's try to list some things that are illegal now, but used to be legal that would seem almost unbelievable to people now.

Slavery is too obvious so no need to even mention

I'll go first: the amount of places where you could legally smoke. Being allowed to smoke on an airplane in particular seems so far fetched that I could see how a teenager might think you are lying if you told them it used to be legal.

re: Things that used to be legal that seem almost unthinkable now (Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:37 pm to Robin Masters)

in Louisiana, it used to be legal to trespass onto private land and hunt on it without the owner's permission as long as that land didn't have POSTED signs on it. People still do this at my house, btw.

re: Things that used to be legal that seem almost unthinkable now (Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:51 pm to Powerman)

I don't have first hand experience of either, but your smoking example is good. However, to me it's the whole notion of an entire business office smoking during working hours indoors that seems harder to believe, but I've heard many stories of hoe there would be a cloud of smoke hanging in an office during working hours.

Second I guess, would be drugs. Though illegal, pot and cocaine both experienced periods of prolific use with seemingly little effort to disuade by police.